Common and Unique Barriers to the Exchange of Administrative Healthcare Data in Environmental Public Health Tracking Program.

ABSTRACT: CDC's National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program (Tracking Program) receives administrative data annually from 25-30 states to track potential environmental exposures and to make data available for public access. In 2019, the CDC Tracking Program conducted a cross-sectional survey among principal investigators or program managers of the 26 funded programs to improve access to timely, accurate, and local data. All 26 funding recipients reported having access to hospital inpatient data, and most states (69.2%) regularly update data user agreements to receive the data. Among the respondents, 15 receive record-level data with protected health information (PHI) and seven receive record-level data without PHI. Regarding geospatial resolution, approximately 50.0% of recipients have acc

SUBMITTER: Shin M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8073470 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature